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Originally Posted by Rob Strange Other than Cronenberg's The Fly, has there ever been a truly worthy remake of a horror flick? |
Herzog's
Nosferatu The Vampyre is certainly worthy - quite excellent (but bewarned, I am a Herzog fanboy).
I also rated the remake of
The Hills Have Eyes, which I was expecting to hate because a) I generally hate remakes and b) I love the original.
I would also add Carpenter's
The Thing, Abel Ferrara's version of
Body Snatchers, (and maybe the 1978 Kaufman one too, though I think folk over-rate it personally) and Scorsese's OK take on
Cape Fear.
The only ones I think actually improve on the original though are
The Fly and
The Thing.